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CARMA -Web
Vancouver 2008
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Why?
• Some background (current site)• Need for a public site to
communicate
status of herds, threats, .....(one of the public faces of
CARMA)
• Need for internal communication and collaboration
• Research (what other projects are happening)
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The Vision• Use of collaborative
tool• Both internal and
external sites within a single site
• Ability for update by CARMA network with low ongoing support
requirements
• Ability to store data and/or supplemental meta/data
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Current Status
• Design phase complete• Menu hierarchy• Content
– Currently tweaking menu structure and working to get all menus
functioning smoothly
– Initial set of content– Maps
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Demonstration
• A typical herd• A typical project • Attachments/images/•
Search capabilities
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Homepage
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LayoutBannerSearch
Menu Bar
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SearchingSearch
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Searching
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What will search do?
• Search web pages• Search attachments (pdf’s, excel files,
word documents)• Appropriate to user ids (e.g. steering
committee docs if you are signed in)• Available to public
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How to contribute?
• What we are asking from "herd co-ordinators" i.e. keep project
up to date, include new reports, keep your contacts current
• What we are asking from "project leaders"• Steering
committee
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Security
• Flexible security based on pages (or group of pages e.g. all
steer com pages)
• View and Update permissions• Can be used to secure data
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Member Login
• What it does?• When you need to use it?
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Challenges• Keeping the site
current• Engaging CARMA
network in use of the site
• Communicating the status of the site (ideas: e-mails)
• Publicizing the site• Have information
that is usable by the public as well as by CARMA network
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Next Steps
• Finalization of menus• Content/content/content (and a plan to
get
it there)• Need for web-coordinator• Public announcement
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Practical Matters
• Accounts (request account through Don)• URLs•
Documentation
– Getting started manual– Full Confluence Documentation
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Online Documentation
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Questions
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..Connecting the Web to Metadata
